In the long history of ancient times, heroes and heroes emerge in an endless stream, and the story of Sima Rui has also been passed down through the ages.
His first wife, Yu Mengmu, was also promoted to Princess Langya when she was named the king of Langya. However, before Sima Rui ascended the throne, Yu Meng's mother had already passed away. After he ascended the throne, he never forgot this beloved wife, and posthumously named her Empress Yuanjing, and has not been established since then.
Sima Rui's second wife was a Xianbei woman Xun, who was originally a palace maid in Langya, blonde and blue-eyed, quite exotic. Her son, Sima Shao, later succeeded to the throne and became the second emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Ming of the Jin Dynasty, while her other son, Sima Pei, also held a high position as a general.
And Sima Rui's third wife, Zheng Achun, is also extraordinary. The prince she gave birth to, Sima Yu, was the youngest son of Sima Rui, and later became the eighth emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, Emperor Jianwen of the Jin Dynasty. Zheng Achun also has a daughter, named Princess Xunyang.
In addition, Sima Rui also has two concubines. Shi Jieyu gave birth to Sima Chong, the third son of the emperor, and was named the king of the East China Sea, while Wang Cairen gave birth to the fifth son of the emperor, Sima Huan, and was named the king of Langxi.
As for why after the death of Yu Mengmu's mother, Sima Rui no longer set up a queen, the answer is deep in his deep affection. His affection for Yu Mengmu was so deep that he could no longer accept other women as queens.
Yu Meng's mother, born in Waihuang, Jiyang (now in the northwest of Henan Minquan), her father Yu Yu was a subordinate official of Sima Bao of the Jin Dynasty, and was posthumously gifted by the imperial court after his death. Although she was a princess, Yu Meng's mother never gave birth. In order to make her happy, Sima Rui let her adopt the two sons born to Xun, but did not take Xun's feelings into account. Yu Mengmu's jealousy of the Xun family made the relationship between the two strained, and the Xun family's life in the palace became more and more difficult.
In the end, in order to curry favor with Yu Meng, his mother Sima Rui decided to expel the Xun family from the palace and let her remarry someone else. However, even so, Yu Mengmu's physical condition did not improve, but died of illness in the sixth year of Yongjia at the age of thirty-five.
After the death of Yu Meng's mother, Sima Rui's heart began to look for new sustenance, and it was then that he met Zheng Achun. Zheng Achun was born in a family of eunuchs, experienced the grief of the death of both parents when he was young, and later married Tian Mou, a native of Bohai, but Tian died early, and she had to defect to her uncle Wu. In the third year of Jianxing, Sima Rui accidentally discovered Zheng Achun and took her as a concubine. Her virtuous virtue won Sima Rui's favor, and even after her death, the idiom "Piri Yangchun" was changed to "Pili Yangqiu" because of her avoidance of her name.
Zheng Achun was named his wife after Sima Rui became emperor, and was also posthumously awarded after his death. The Xun family set up a mansion outside the palace and enshrined Longhou, which was also respected during the reign of Emperor Jin Cheng. Although the two women have passed away, their stories are still alive in history and have become an indispensable part of Sima Rui's life.